Mark Cuban has reason to smile after the $2 billion sale of the Clippers.

Last Friday morning, there was something different about Mark Cuban when he appeared at the studio of the Kidd Kraddick in the Morning Show to celebrate co-host Kellie Rasberry’s 20 years on the program. The difference? He was about $1 billion richer than he had been on Thursday morning.

It turns out that Cuban was not just pulling a Trump when he said that Forbes magazine’s January valuation of his Dallas Mavericks of $765 million was way too low. He told this newspaper that if someone offered him $765 million for the team, he would “laugh at them.”

Forbes guesstimated the Mavs to be the 8th most valuable NBA team.

The L.A. Clippers were 13th on the Forbes list with a value $575 million.

Last Thursday, it was announced that former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer would buy the Clippers for $2 billion in the wake of the V. Stiviano/Donald Sterling unpleasantness.

Even putting a vanity discount on the Ballmer purchase (he is worth $20 billion, so what the heck?), the deal has got to put the Mavs in the $2 billion ballpark, significantly raising the net worth of the majority owner.

But the Kraddick in the Morning crew wanted to know about CyberDust, Cuban’s new texting app that makes messages disappear immediately after they’re read.

Cuban released the product after a federal jury cleared him in the SEC’s dubious insider trading case against him.

“I had a little fight with the government,” he told the Kraddick team, “but I kicked their (mild expletive deleted).”